If Mason vanished in a room full of power and eyes… then who was watching while no one else saw? Thank you for reading….every view, like, and comment means the world!
The boardroom was ice.Not from the air conditioning or the glass walls framing Manhattan’s skyline but from the tension thickening the room like storm clouds moments before a downpour. It wasn’t just a corporate gathering, it was a reckoning cloaked in Armani suits and calculated expressions.Damon Thorne stood at the head of the obsidian conference table, no longer a man under siege. He was here to take back what was his.At his side stood Juliette, calm and unyielding, her eyes locked forward. Her presence alone shifted the balance of power—an unspoken warning that the woman beside Damon was no longer anyone’s pawn.Around them, the shareholders sat quietly. The legal teams clutched their digital briefs. Internal security lined the walls.And across the table, like a queen disguised as a cobra, sat Celeste.Draped in sapphire silk, lips painted with the calm of a woman who believed she couldn’t lose, she smiled.“This emergency session,” she purred, “was called at the last minute b
The first sunlight in days spilled into the penthouse, casting golden lines across a war room still littered with evidence of a life under siege. But it did little to thaw the cold that gripped Damon Thorne’s chest. He stood by the window, unmoving, staring down at a city awakening beneath him unaware of the war waged above its streets.Behind him, Juliette was a portrait of controlled urgency. Curled into a chair, she flipped through testimony and transfer logs, her brow furrowed; her eyes bloodshot but sharp. The fatigue in her bones warred with the drive that kept her working. There was no time to rest. Not when every new discovery brought them closer to the truth and to the people trying to bury it.A sharp buzz broke the silence.Damon’s phone lit up.42.8895° N, 74.3618° W. Come alone. Trust no one.He stared at the coordinates, his heart tightening. Not because of where it pointed but because of who it pointed to.Juliette looked up. “What is it?”Damon turned the screen toward
The lights of Manhattan burned dim beyond the penthouse windows, a city moving forward while Damon Thorne stood frozen in its wake. From the inside, the once-pristine war room looked like a battlefield: shredded reports, unplugged screens, and untouched scotch staining the edges of crystal tumblers. It wasn’t just chaos. It was the aftermath.And Damon was unraveling in its center.He didn’t speak as Juliette stepped into the room. Her eyes immediately fell to him still at the window, shoulders heavy, shadows under his eyes that hadn’t been there days ago.“You’ve been standing here all night,” she said softly.“I built something,” he murmured. “Stone by stone, sacrifice after sacrifice. And in the end, it’s all kindling for someone else’s fire”.“You didn’t lose everything,” Juliette replied. “Not yet”.He turned to her slowly. “They took the board. The company. The headlines are painting me as a fraud, a criminal. And Mason…”Juliette crossed the room. “Mason is still yours. He’s st
Damon Thorne stood before the towering window of his penthouse office, arms folded, gaze pinned to the distant skyline. Manhattan moved below with its usual indifference—headlines blaring chaos, investors pulling out, whispers tightening into nooses but up here, time stood still.The city hadn’t changed.He had.Behind him, the walls of his empire were closing in, one betrayal at a time.Juliette entered quietly, a tablet in her hand. She didn’t have to speak right away. She knew the moment — knew when to wait for him to come up for air.“You didn’t sleep again,” she said softly.Damon didn’t turn. “Didn’t need to. Nightmares don’t scare me anymore”.She stepped beside him. “Then what does?”He finally looked at her. “The possibility that I’ve trusted the wrong people for too long and I won’t know until it’s too late”.Juliette handed him the tablet. “You’re close. That tip , the one about the mole—it was right. But we need one more piece to expose them completely.”Damon took the devi
Morning light poured through the tall windows of Damon Thorne’s penthouse, bathing the interior in a false sense of peace. But nothing about this morning felt calm. Not the city below, not the tower of files on the glass table, and certainly not the man standing in the middle of it all—motionless, hands buried in the pockets of his slacks, eyes fixed on the skyline like it might offer him clarity.Behind him, Juliette moved with calculated precision. She flipped through breach reports on her tablet, each one worse than the last. Her dark eyes scanned line after line of digital carnage: funding freezes, hostile email threads, boardroom whisper campaigns. The pressure was suffocating, but she didn’t flinch.“They’re closing in,” she said finally, her voice even. “Three more investors pulled out this morning. The coastal expansion is frozen. Your emergency vote of confidence is set for tomorrow.”Damon didn’t turn. “They were always going to bail when things got hard. They weren’t partner
The air inside Thorne Global’s upper floors was thick with tension less like an office, more like a fortress at siege.Damon Thorne stood in the executive war room, arms crossed, eyes locked on the transparent whiteboard covered in color-coded names, locations, and arrows. Some faces had been crossed out. Others circled. The newest entry, still unmarked, sat in the center: Marcus Thorne.Across the room, Juliette tapped furiously at her tablet, syncing the latest Intel from their surveillance team. The silence between them wasn’t empty, it pulsed with decisions waiting to detonate.“Celeste leaked it,” Juliette finally said. “The whistleblower memo. She released a version with forged timestamps to discredit the real one we were planning to drop. She’s already controlling the narrative.”Damon nodded once, lips pressed tight. We’ll stop playing checkers while she plays chess.Juliette looked up. “What do you have in mind?”He moved to a secured drawer, input a six-digit passcode, and re